DR Congo: more babies born than in the US
births in 2023
The US has 3.2 times as many people (343M against 106M), yet more babies were born here in 2023: 4.37M against 3.6M. It overtook the US in births in 2018.
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Live births in a calendar year, for two countries: one has far fewer people yet more babies.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- DR Congo: Births thousand births per year
564 (1950) → 4,370 (2023)
- United States: Births thousand births per year
3,698 (1950) → 3,596 (2023)
UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024 → NCHS, Births: Final Data for 2024 (NVSR vol 75 no 2, 9 Jun 2026), Tables 1-2
- DR Congo: Population thousand persons, 1 July
105,790 (2023)
- United States: Population thousand persons, 1 July
343,477 (2023)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024) and national statistics where available; population on 1 July of the same year.
A question for this picture
How many of these children will look for work in 20 years, and where?